Sublime

the biggest misconception i had entering the adult world was that "more money means more intelligence is going into it", often it's actually the opposite! most ventures tend to have a fixed amount of 'sensemaking' and as the money grows the 'sense per dollar' trends to zero

scale is challenging - you can do something that 95% of people like, but the remaining 5% are literally a hundred thousand people who are now *angry* - we're not evolved to process emotions at this scale (physiologically) and i see it stop many (tragically) from wanting to create

the biggest frustration of a hardcore technologist in san francisco is how many companies both tiny and gargantuan are kinda fake - investors often can't tell the difference between story and substance and armed with a billion dollars it may take a decade for it to fail. as an

in my testing, deepseek crushes western models on ancient chinese philosophy and literature, while also having a much stronger command of english than my first-hand chinese sources. it feels like communing with literary/historical/philosophical knowledge across generations that i never had access to before. it's quite emotionally moving. it makes s... See more